IntelliJ IDEA is an intelligent, context-aware IDE tool designed to work with Java, JVM and other language program (Kotlin, Scala, and Groovy) on any type of applications. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate (the commercial version) enables users to develop full-stack web applications using its powerful integrated tools, support for JavaScript and related technologies as well as advanced support for various widely used frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, Micronaut, Quarkus, Helidon. In addition, IntelliJ IDEA can be extended with free plugins by JetBrains, giving the ability to work with other programming language like Go, Python, SQL, Ruby, and PHP.
1. Developer-friendly
IntelliJ IDEA is designed to provide users with seamless experience. Through easy start up, keyboard shortcut for everything, standard and custom themes, plugins and accessibility, it gives quick access to every essential features and integrated tools for your work, also broad range of customization selections, thus simplifies workflows.
2. Deep code insight
IntelliJ IDEA is capable in understanding many programming languages including Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, and SQL. IntelliJ IDEA provide these languages with smart coding assistance. With Initial indexing of source code, IDE is able to create virtual map for your project where its information is used to detect errors on the fly, suggest code completion variants with precise context-awareness, perform refactoring, and much more. The features in IntelliJ IDEA for deep code inside include inspections and context actions, Inspections and context actions, language injections, diagrams, live templates and project-wide refactoring.
3. Instant navigation and search
IntelliJ IDEA is designed with various features that speed up navigation and search. The features are
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate allows framework-specific navigation. Framework in IntelliJ IDEA achieves this by making it possible to navigate through your code using the gutter icons.
4. Run, test and debug
IntelliJ IDEA is equipped with a toolset for setting run and build parameters for your application and debugging code, also for applying and developing JUnit tests directly in the IDE.
5. Built-in tools and integrations
Using IntelliJ IDEA, the included mission critical built-in tools and integration, users can work in a familiar environment without the need to switch between applications. The tools and integration involved are Build tool (i.e; Maven, Gradle, Ant, and Gant), built-in terminal, profiler, compiler, as well as database support and HTTP client.
6. Version Control
IntelliJ IDEA provide supports for version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, and Perforce, out of the box. With this feature, users are able to clone a project from a VCS directly from the Welcome screen, examine the differences between two revisions, manage branches, commit and push changes, merge conflicts, review the history, and many more.
7. Collaboration and teamwork
This feature offers
– Service for collaborative development and pair programming – Code With Me
With this service, the project that is currently open in your IDE can be shared with others for collaboration in real-time. It also allows video and voice call for 1 on 1 meeting or group meeting.
– integration with JetBrains Space
This integration enable the space organisation to view and clone project repositories, review code of your teammate, also write Space Automation scripts.
Read the post below to know more about Jetbrains Space.
